Union Finance Minister and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Thursday
slammed the manner a section of lawyers and others had attacked former Chief Justice Dipak Misra and maintained that the threat to the independence of judiciary can also come from the ‘public pressures’ the ‘Compulsive Contrarians’ exert on Judges.
“There are a set of extra-adventurist lawyers practising in the highest Court, as in every other Courts. Their strategy is to over-awe the Court. They threaten to walk out of cases, they move impeachment motions in their Political capacity to flex their muscles and clout, they make public comments on Judges. They use media to intimidate the Court,” Mr Jaitley wrote in a lengthy blog piece posted on Facebook.(UNI)